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CONTENTS.
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Items of Interest Relating to Last Year’s Work 303
Notes and Personals 304
A Letter from One of Our Future Missionaries of the Second Generation
Foster M. Beck. 306
Report of Statistician of Presbyt. Church, N Rev. Wade Koons. 30 7
Report of an Address to the Presbyterian Mission on the Million Move-
ment Rpv. Wm. Blair. 3 10
Brief Notes on the Annual Meeting of Presbytery
Rev.J. U. S. Toms and Rev. A. R. Ross. 311
Work in Syen Chyun for Girls and Young Women Mrs. Geo. McCune. 313
Woman’s Work in Kangai By Mrs. Herbert Blair. 314
Report of Woman’s Bible Institute Miss Margaret Best. 31 7
Characteristic Features and Problems of Women’s Work in Syen Chyun
Mrs. Whittemore . 321
Extracts from the Story of Recent Woman’s Work in the Methodist
Mission as told by Miss Frey, Miss Albertson , Mrs. Noble, Miss Estey,
Miss Hillman, Miss Miller, Mrs. Sharpe 324
The Need of Education for Poor Korean Girls Mrs. Underwood. 328
Wonsan Bible Conference Miss McCtilly. 330
Notes on the Presbyterian Annual Meeting at Pyeng An Ed. 332
Notes on the Presbyterian Women’s Meeting 334
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NOVEMBER, 1911
NO. II
ITEMS OF INTEREST RELATING TO
LAST YEAR S WORK.
At Chemulpo the unsalaried women class leaders of the
M.E. Church during 11 months have made 14,194 visits in
homes and held 103 classes for instruction of younger women.
Mrs. Noble tells of a woman of 58 who could not read
who recited perfectly nearly a whole chapter in the Bible. Her
husband had read it over and over to her until she mastered it.
In the district under care of Pyeng Yang missionaries,
last year 106 women’s village Bible training classes were held,
each, of at least one week’s duration, with total attendance of
3,920, and these with the women who attended the great classes
in that city, make a total of 6,369 women, belonging to that
station who studied in classes.
The Evangelistic Responsibility of the Presbyterian Mission,
North, is 4,785,000 souls. This means that 1 in 44 of those
for whom they are accountable has been gathered in so far.
The death r ate would be more per annum than this.
They have 1 missionary to every 435,000 people.
This church has 6,308 men and women who serve as
teachers, leaders, deacons, etc., without salary.
Over 40,000 individuals under this mission alone, studied
In Bible classes of at least 4 days during the past year.
The N. Presbyt. Church received by confession 6,823
adults, and 14,757 catechumens during the past year.
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NOTES AND PERSONALS.
The .Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church in Korea, met in its fourth assembly,
at Taiku, on Sept, the 17th, and remained in session, till the 2lst, and was followed
by the meeting of the Presbyterian Council of missions.
The Annual Meeting of the Canadian Mission took place in early October ; we
are expecting inspiring reports from them.
The Canadians, we rejoice to say, are expecting a new missionary in October.
Word came late in September that Dr. McClennahan of the Presbyt. Church,
supposed to be on his way out, had resigned. This brings consternation, for there are
more stations which must be supplied with a physician, than there are doctors, and
how even to provide for the most distant is a problem.
Miss Nichols of Seoul would like very much to obtain a copy of the Field
for Dec., 1909.
Another distressing report has reached us, that Dr. Whiting of Chai Ryung has
been pronounced by European physicians to be the victim of a serious chronic maladj'-,
which may delay his return to Korea, perhaps indefinitely. This would be a terrible
loss to Korea, as well as sorrow to Dr. and Mrs. Whiting who so much love the people
and are so loved, but it may be that God has work for Dr. Whiting to do for His
Koreans, while in America. Those depressing items are not inserted here merely as
news, but that they may be made a special subject of prayer.
Gen Yun Yung Eul, father of Mr. Yun Che Ho, passed away, on Friday, Sept.
22nd, after a long and painful illness. He has always been an ideal pattern of a true
Oriental gentleman, honorable, loyal, wise and kind, sans peur et sans reprochc. His
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missionary friends have long thot of him, “ only one thing thou lackest,” for while
he gave intellectual assent to Christianity, and constantly contributed largely to the
work, he delayed making the final decision, and full surrender. Recently, however, he
called for a missionary friend and confessed his faith in Jesus as his personal Savior,
with deep contrition that he had not given himself sooner. “ And now,” said he
wearily, “ I should like to go at once,” as if his soul had not been able to release
itself until that step was taken. While we shall all mourn the loss of Gen Yun as
one of the noblest of the Koreans, and one of the most highly prized friends, we
rejoice unspeakably that he was able to give his testimony for his Master, and to
enter the gates of Eternal Life ere his departure hence. Mrs. Yun was baptized in
his presence shortly before his death. Gen Yun’s funeral services took place at the
Sai Mun An Church in Seoul, on Friday, Sept. 29.
Dr. J. B. Patterson of Kunsan, Korea, and Miss Rosetta Crabb of Wooster,
O., U.S., were married in Yokohama, Japan, Sept. 7, 1911, Dr. W. D. Reynolds
officiating. All the parties are members of the S. Presbyterian Mission. We
welcome Mrs. Patterson to Korea and extend our best wishes to them both.
The Rev. Dr. Wilbert White paid another short visit to Korea attending the
Presbyterian Council at Taiku, in Sept., and gave several most interesting Bible
studies in Seoul ere he departed for America.
The S.M.E. Mission has been blessed by the following additions to its force, in
Sept, of this year : Dr. and Mrs. Bowman and their seven year old daughter Lilia
for new medical work in Chon Chun, Miss Ida Hankins, Miss Tinsley, Miss Reed
Miss Barker, Miss Jackson, and Miss Tucker. Hearty congratulations to the S.
Methodists, and to Korea !
The medical council met in Seoul Sept. 30th, and with the return of others from
Presbytery the missionary homes in the capital were all full of foreigners.
The British and Foreign Bible Society boasts a new secretary just arrived, Mr.
Lamprey of Albion College. He is from Detroit, Michigan. Welcome to Korea.
To Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Oliver Reiner was born a son Hugh Munroe, seven
pounds great, on Sept, the 25th. We all rejoice with the happy parents.
Mrs. Norton of Haiju sends the following appeal : -
Ever since I have been in Korea I have longed to start a kindergarten, but was
not free to do so, first because I did not have the language, and then our little Lucy
came and my duty was at home. Now, the children are older and I have opened a
kindergarten. Started with eleven, six boys and four girls, and the church people
assure me that many more will come.
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Several advised me not to have the boys and girls together for fear the parents
would object. But, the children who have enrolled are from our “high class”
families in the church and surely if they do not object the other classes will not.
It’s so much pleasure to see the little girlies, the youngest five years, in their
brilliant waists and pretty beaded hair ribbons learning to sing, and there are some
bright eyed boys too. I have only a few songs and finger plays translated and with
the help of our teacher will try to do more, but our out put will be small, so I am
writing for aid. Is there any one who has a kindergarten in Korea ?
You see the gifts and stories and games and all the work of a kindergarten will
be made so much easier if several of us could exchange and not duplicate our
translations.*
A LETTER FROM ONE OF OUR FUTURE
MISSIONARIES OF THE SECOND
GENERATION.
To the Editor of the Korea Mission Field:
I am sending you a few notes concerning some of the boys
who have been reared in Korea, believing that our friends would like to
know what we are doing now, and of our plans for the future. This
information is of the most recent date obtainable.
John E. Moore, son of Rev. F. S. Moore, deceased, will be a
sophomore in Wooster University, Wooster, Ohio, during the coming
year. It is his plan to take a three years’ course in a theological seminary
upon the. completion of his college course. It is then his plan to continue
the work of his father in Korea.
Forest Moore will be a member of the senior class of the Wooster
Academy this year. Forest is making a great record in athletics. He
has not decided yet on his future work.
Bolling Reynolds will be a sophomore in Fredericksburg College,
Fredericksburg, Va., this fall. He plans to return to Korea as a mis-
sionary upon the completion of his college course.
Edward Junkin will also be a sophomore in Fredericksburg College.
He plans to become a minister, but has not decided as to whether he will
return to Korea. His brother William will be a freshman in Fredericks-
burg College this fall. What his future course will be is yet undetermined.
Wilbur Swallen will be a freshman at Mt. Hermon, Mass., this fall.
He plans to return to Korea as a missionary upon the completion of his
school work.
Sherwood Hall will be a member of the third year Academy class
at Mt. Hermon, Mass. He expects eventually to return to Korea as a
medical missionary.
Mylo Lee will be a member of the second year Academy class at
* Will any one who has translated stories or songs please communicate with Mrs. Morton and friends who
are inclined to send gifts or games will be doing a good work.
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Parsons College, Fairfield, Iowa. He has not decided yet what his
future will be.
Lawrence Avison graduated from Wooster University in June and
for the coming winter will be working for the Pittsburgh Y.M.C.A.
Wilbur and Douglas Avison have been attending school in Wooster,
O. Wilbur finished high school this summer. Douglas has been very ill
and has been ordered to rest and winter on a farm this year. All three
of the Avison boys desire to return to Korea, to engage in mission work.
As for myself, I will be a freshman at the University of Nebraska,
Lincoln, Nebr., this year. I am working in the City Y.M.C.A.-, and
will continue to do so during my four years’ college course. Upon its
completion I am planning to attend either the Y.M.C.A. Training School
at Chicago or Springfield, Mass., for a year, then after a year of practical
experience in this country I expect to return to Korea.
We are all interested in hearing from Korea, and all expectantly look
forward to the time when we can again meet our many friends in Korea
face to face.
Most sincerely,
Foster M. Beck.
Delighted to hear from Foster. Three cheers for our boys! Let us hear again. We
can add a few more items to his budget. Henry Appenzeller is in Princeton College a
senior this year, expecting to study for the ministry and return to Korea as a missionary.
Horace Underwood is this year a senior in New York University. He is student Secretary
of the Y'.M.C.A. of his University. Edward Adams and John Baird enter the Northfield
preparatory school this year. We believe both intend to return to Korea. Now let us hear
from the girls — Ed.
STATISTICIAN S REPORT
OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, NORTH.
In addition to the complete table furnished to each member of the
Mission, and the smaller table to be printed in the Minutes, I wish to
present a few salient facts gleaned from the Statistics.
Per cent.
1. Composition of the Church. Baptized Adults ... 36,074 33.0
„ Children ... 3,671 3.3
Catechumens 25,948 23.7
Other Adherents... 43,277 40.0
Total 108,970 100.0
2. Our Evangelistic Responsibility is 4,785,000 souls (including
a conservative allowance of 100,000 for Kang Kai’s popula-
tion in Manchuria)? This means that 1 in 44 of those for
whom we are accountable has been gathered in so far. The
death rate will be more per annum than this. That is, with
all the success God has given this work, the total Christians
are less than the number that dies each year, in our Field.
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3. The Force. (As reported before this Meeting.)
1 17 Missionaries, 1 to every 43,500 people.
33 Evangelistic Men workers, 1 to every 3,300 Christians.
204 Paid Korean Pastors and Helpers (Foreign and Native
funds) 1 to every 534 Christians.
But it is not by these few that the work of the Lord is done.
They can only reach individuals here and there, and give most
of their time to keeping the whole machine in running order.
The back-bone of this work is the force of Unpaid Officers :
1 1 1 Elders, part of whom are paid Helpers.
1,032 Leaders, who are acting Pastors. Paul called them
“ Elders ” in Acts 14:23.
Adding to these all the Deacons, Leaders of Tens, Class-
Leaders, S.S. Teachers, etc., we have a total (deducting those
enrolled twice) of 6,308, men and women combined, who
serve the Lord in this special way without salary, and often
at their own charges.
They are : 1 in every 6 Communicants.
I „ ,, 18 Christians.
4. Organization. 78 Organized churches.
1,055 Groups (Churches to be, some of them with
congregation of 400.)
2, 1 1 7 Mid-week Prayer-meetings. Many of the
groups are so far from the homes of the
members that they are obliged to meet
nearer home in the evenings.
5. Special Classes for Bible Study, lasting 4 days each or over, and
including some Bible Institutes of a month each, enrolled
54,587. Making allowance for those enrolled more than
once, we have at least 40,000 individuals who took part in
this special study.
6. FMucation.
I College 49 Students 4 Missionary Teachers 0 Korean Teachers.
1 Theo. Sem. 134
99
4
99
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99 99
* I Med. School 56
99
2
99
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99 99
10 Boys’ Acad. 811
rs Girls’ „ 245
99
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53
99 9>
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9
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99 99
514 Primary Sch. 8,640
99
0
99
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99 99
7. Contributions.
Yen
162,618.14
U.S. $81,309.17
Per Adherent
99
I.50
•75
„ Communicant
99
4.50
2.25
We may fairly assume that the ratio of income between the
church membership in Korea and in the U.S.A. is as 1 to 10.
Applying this we have a total contribution per communicant of
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the equivalent of $22.50. The gifts in our church at home
last year were $19.13 per communicant. But this sort of
comparison is of doubtful value, and open to question.
Contributions were divided as follows :
Yen.
Per cent.
Church and Congregational expense.
54,772.625
33 -7
Home and Foreign Missions
6,932.01
4.4
Building and Repairs
36,04 7.86
22.2
Education (mostly Primary)
53,033.42
32.7
Miscellaneous
11,232.425
7.0
Total
162,618.34
100.0
8. Increase in Membership.
Received by confession of Faith (communicants) 6,823 adults.
Catechumens 14,757 received this year.
Net increase in Communicants 5,457 equal to 17.8%.
9. Medical Work.
67,119 Dispensary Patients and 1,739 (Korean) Inpatients
have been treated in the 9 dispensaries and hospitals.
Though only 3 stations report the number professing
conversion as a result of medical work, this is 1,1 16, and the
total will doubtless be 2,000 if all the figures can be as-
certained. Total expenditures for current expenses were
35,226^// and total receipts 33,266^/?, including only 6,688
yen from the Board.
10. Changes made by actions of the Mission.
Including those at home on indefinite or extended furlough,
and those appointed at this time and not yet on the field, the
total force of the Mission is 126, making one to every 38,000
on our field. This is not so far from the “ Omaha Standard ”
of 1 to 25,000. We now have 34 men assigned to evangelistic
work, making 1 to 3,250 Christians.
Note to Par. 7. The net increase in membership of the Presby-
terian Church in the U.S.A. for the past year was 15,453,
not quite 3 times what it was in this Mission, and the per
cent was 1.1 °/o, against our 17.8%.
This brief survey furnishes reasons for thanksgiving, but also for
confession of our failure to live up to our opportunities. Let us not rest
content with a few striking figures about the past or the present, but work
for steady growth in spirituality as well as in numbers.
Respectfully submitted,
E. w. Koons.
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REPORT OF AN ADDRESS TO THE
PRESBYTERIAN MISSION ON THE MILLION
MOVEMENT.
By Rev. WM. BLAIR.
I am glad to have this opportunity of addressing the Mission this
morning, because I believe something ought to be said regarding the
Evangelistic Campaign recently conducted throughout Korea. Some
are inclined to be disappointed because an actual million was not
gathered into the church within the one year and to consider the
movement a failure. But how could it be a failure ? The whole church
entered into the campaign with faith and unparalleled enthusiasm. The
Gospel was preached as never before all over Korea. We need have no
fear as to the results. God has said concerning His Word, “ it shall not
return unto me void,” and a great harvest must be reaped from the
broadcast sowing of last year.
I was in America when the campaign began and heard of the great
undertaking with many misgivings ; but when I returned and saw how
the Koreans themselves believed in the movement, how they were praying
and preaching, I knew God’s Spirit was in it and entered into the final
campaign with all my heart. We do not know how many were saved,
but we do know that a great multitude was persuaded to enter the
churches and express a desire to believe. Personally, I believe that when
all is known, more than a million souls will be found to date their
interest in the Kingdom from this Million Year.*
But there is another aspect of the year’s work which needs to be
emphasized, the effect upon the Church itself. The year of the Campaign
was a year of crisis in the history of this people. No one foresaw it when
the Campaign began, but before it was more than well started Annexation
came and Korea ceased to be a separate country. Such a national
change could not but profoundly effect the church. People everywhere
expected and predicted disaster, but God foresaw the danger and
prepared His people for it by pouring out upon His Church a great
baptism of evangelistic fervpr. Absorbed in the great campaign for souls,
the Korean Church passed through the trying year with unchanged and
victorious spirit, unwearied and united, stronger and more eager than ever
to push forward the battle until not only one million, but all of Korea’s
millions shall be brought to the Master.
There are times when to hold one’s own means progress, when
victory inch by inch against the rushing waves means more than swift
flight over smooth waters. Some of us in Pyeng Yang go up the Tai
Tong River every summer. Sometimes the river opens out broad and
smooth like a lake for miles and the men pull the boat along rapidly and
with ease till we come to a rapid where the river is crowded into a
narrow, roaring torrent. Now the real battle begins. Slowly, inch by
* The Field has made the same assertion in another issue.
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inch, we ascend the cataract. I can hear the water roar. I can see the
men straining at the rope. I can hear the boat timbers creak. It is
everything in the rapids if the men do not slip, if the rope does not break.
The Korean Church was in the rapids last year. It is everything to us
that the feet of her leaders did not slip, that her faith in God did not
break.
We are above the rapids now. Now we ought to go forward. If
we will only put forth the energy now that we did last year, we will see
our prayers answered. We do not want or need another campaign. All
we want is for each of us to make personal evangelistic work, especially
these next few months, our first assignment. Can we not do it ? The
doctor in his hospital, the teacher going to and from his school, the
itinerator out in the country. I know we have so much to do. Perhaps
we can not always put so much strength into personally preaching the
Gospel. But let us do it now, even though other work has to suffer. If
we do, if we go out this year determined to gather in the great harvest
sown last year, the Korean Church will gladly follow and together with
God’s help we will fulfill the Church’s glorious vision.
BRIEF NOTES ON THE MEETING
OF PRESBYTERY.
The fifth annual meeting of the Presbytery of Korea convened at
Taiku, September 17th, 1911. The opening day was one of spiritual
preparation. In the morning Mr. Beil led the service preparing the
hearts of all for the communion service in the afternoon. After a sermon
by Pastor Kil, Dr. Gale, the retiring moderator, conducted the
communion service. Dr. Reynolds led the afternoon English service and
Dr. Clark spoke in the evening from Revelations.
Dr. Reynolds was elected moderator, filling this difficult position
with a facility and impartiality most acceptable to all. At the roll call
173 responded, 116 elders and 57 ministers. This number was increased
by the arrival of a number of late comers. The sessions were held in the
Taiku city church which seats over 1,000 .and besides the regular
delegates a large number of self-appointed delegates were in attendance
and followed the proceeding closely. The church was generally quite
comfortably filled, the attendance being largest at the missionary addresses.
Monday evening, Kim Moksa, of Puk Kan Do, spoke and, Tuesday
evening, Han Moksa, of Manchuria, and Yi Moksa, of Quelpart, told of
their work. One of the stirring events of the meeting was the solving of
the problem at Vladivostock when An Moksa was found as the additional
missionary and more than 400 yen was given by the members of Presby-
tery towards his support.
Perhaps the most important action taken was the decision to form the
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Korea. Seven presby-
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teries were set apart. The first General Assembly will meet at Pyeng
Yang, September, 1912, the same place where the first Presbytery met.
The basis of representation for the first meeting will be the same as at
present, delegates to later meetings will be chosen on a smaller proportion.
The crowning event of the whole meeting was the ordination service.
Seventeen men were ordained full pastors, two were ordained as co-pastors
and five were ordained as licentiates.
This is the first time the Presbytery has met in the south and
although a majority of the presbyters had to travel further the extra
expense and trouble were justified by the benefits obtained. Those who
came from a distance had an opportunity of seeing the work in a more
understanding way and of enjoying the fellowship and hospitality of their
Southern brethren. The coming of Presbytery was a revelation to the
non-Christians and an education and inspiration to the multitude ol
unofficial delegates who had come from all parts of the province.
The last meeting of the Presbytery of Korea adjourned at 12 m.,
Friday, September 22nd, 1911.
J. U. Selwyn Toms.
Further notes sent by Rev. A. R. Ross are as follows :
Yi Moksa, missionary to the Island of Quelpart, told of a lame boy of
1 1 years of age whom a missionary doctor had taken to Mokpo for treat-
ment. The doctor after trying for about 3 months to cure the boy found
it impossible and told the boy that he could not and advised him to return
to Quelpart and to pray for healing. The boy went home and engaged
in prayer for 7 days at the end of which time he received strength to rise
up and walk. The speaker said that because of this many sick people
had come to them and that the church had become a hospital. Yi Moksa
also related how that when it was difficult to carry on school work that
Korean Christians from other places had sent money and that one Syen
Chun woman had done what was an especially worthy deed — offered her
ring to help on the cause. He also told how the cause in Quelpart has
not grown without persecution for two women who gave up their houses
to be used as churches suffered in being much beaten. He reported that
worship is now conducted in 5 places in Quelpart by 160 Christians while
there is a school with 1 7 pupils. The work in both east and west Kando
(Manchuria) and in Russia was reported by other workers and also bears
witness to the work of grace God is doing in the hearts of the Koreans in
far off places under the supervision of Presbytery.
While the business of Presbytery was carried on usually with real
seriousness it was not without incidents of humour.
At a certain meeting when one speaker had risen and sought to
impress upon Presbytery the danger of harm coming from a light spirit
shown in the excessive clapping of hands in applause, another replied that
scripture supported the clapping of hands and quoted the psalmist,
“ Clap your hands O ye trees.”
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A Korean minister was fully equal to this last foreigner's remark and
replied with humour that trees had no hands and could not make a voice
and so were only to do it in a spiritual sense.
In closing let me refer to the brotherly spirit well manifested between
foreign missionaries and Korean ministers and elders which is by no means
a small factor in the working out of the church’s best good at this im-
portant time in its history and must aid in securing the blessing of Him
Who prayed for this spirit and left to His Church universal the command
“ That ye love one another as I have loved you.”
WORK IN SYEN CHON FOR GIRLS
AND YOONG WOMEN."
By Mrs. GEO. McCUNE.
I want to speak specially of help that can be given to girls in primary
schools and the work that can be done for young women. In repre-
senting Syen Chyun in any thing educational we have to take into account
that our divisions of school are different than in other stations. We do
not have any preparatory department in our Academy, so that when we
report our Academy work we report only the three classes of highest
grade. If we were to report on the same basis as Pyeng Yang or Seoul
Academies we would report not only our Academy proper but a share of
the work of our local Grammar school and the work of the school for
young women. Miss Chase felt that the students would be the better for
separate institutions so that instead of a preparatory department we have
eliminated the troublesome elements by arranging to care for girls from
the country who cannot come from their local schools directly into the
Academy, in our dormitory for Academy girls. Then by giving over-
sight to the lower school we can still keep our control over the girls. Our
plan seems to work in our station but of course might be a failure in
larger cities. The examination questions for the lower schools are
approved by Mr. McCune as superintendent of local schools and if we
get poorly prepared girls in our Academy Miss Chase or Mrs. Whittemore
in her stead will have to settle with him. Mrs. Sharrocks had oversight
of the lower school last year and our teachers are very willing to receive
all the suggestions they can get. We have found that numbers of girls
in our schools were dropping out on account of expense and we have
tried to meet that by providing some way of self-help. Of course one im-
mediately runs against a snag when help is attempted, for it is hard to
decide whom to help and whom to refuse. We have thrown that res-
ponsibility upon the church officers. One of them who is interested
especially in the school is consulted as to the home circumstances of
applicants for help. As to manner of help the easiest way would be to
visit our tithe box and turn over a few yen to the school treasurer. But
that would not be best for the girls, so before the tithe box is visited the
* Read at the woman’s meeting of the Presbyt. Mission.
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girls must sew half a day each week with pieces from America furnishing
work. There has been no difficulty so far in finding scrap bags which
will lend themselves to the work.
For older girls in the Academy we do the same thing, allowing them
to sew on any thing we can devise*. Girls are fond of hemstitching, so
this year some of that has been done.
For young women we have a separate school. The course covered
is about that of the ordinary lower school plus some things which will
be helpful to them as women. For example some hygiene and this year
when in town Miss Helstrom promises some lessons in care of the sick
and wounded. They can advance more rapidly than children and we
hope to cover the whole course in four years. To this school we admit
country women who have no home ties to prevent. As to local women
we admit those who can be spared from home even tho they have children
tho they are not supposed to ever bring the children to school. Last
year the women met with the Academy girls for morning chapel and
spent the rest of the morning in study in their own class-room. As to
financial help upon recommendation by the chosas or moksas* we give
them work to do. Mrs. Lampe is teaching the women to embroider and
we are hoping to be able to make the department in the main self-
supporting. With the women in a dormitory as we can have them now
that we have our new dormitory, a woman can pay her expenses aside
from clothing by working three or four hours a day receiving 3.75 or 4
sen\ per hour. We have one 50 yen order for work and are trusting that
when that is finished we may have more to work upon. The purpose of
this school has been questioned. It is thought that some of the women
may be passed on into the regular Academy for further study, that some
may be ready for special study in the Bible Institute which we hope will
flourish upon Miss Samuels’ return, that some may go out as teachers
into some of our country churches where they can help wonderfully in
church work as well as in school work and, lastly, but by no means least,
we hope many of them will go out into their own homes and be a power
in our church as mothers, as Sunday-school teachers, as leaders in all
good things.
WOMAN S WORK IN KANG KAI.1:
By Mrs. HERBERT BLAIR.
A note from Mrs. Moffett asking for a paper on some particular
phase of the women’s work in Kang Kai has set us thinking and talking
about our Bible women and the peculiar circumstances under which
they work and at the risk of repeating myself I am going to give you
the gist of the matter.
First, to give you an idea of our district, a little comparative
geography. And please do not any of you hold me too closely to my
* Chosas=leaders, moksas— pastors.
t Two cents.
+ Read at the woman’s meeting cf the Presbyt Mission.
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figures for they are only approximate. When I opened the geography
I stumbled on a map of Palestine. If you begin at the south end of
the Dead Sea and travel north to Hermon you will cover the distance
north and south which our itinerators must cover as they travel up and
down the district. Judea at her widest point, including the land settled
east of Jordan is the width of our allotted portion of Korea. Scotland
is a little longer and a little wider but allowing for her indentations has
very little if any more land. Plalf of Colorado or Massachusetts a
couple of times will about equal our parish. But you must choose the
mountainous part of Colorado with her heaviest rains daily occurances,
and extreme summer heat when it is not raining, for several months
of the year and heavy snows for many of the remaining months. The
snows, however, make excellent roads for travel if one is very acrobatic
and can land on his feet the upper side of an inclined road when he feels
the sleigh unexpectedly going over the embankment. If you have a
good horseman he will jump quickly so that you can land on his back if
the sleigh turns upside down over a precipice but these experiences and
breaking through the top ice over a gentle little stream like the Yalu
do not specially commend themselves as suitable to a lady. (Please do
not think that I am trying to detract from the beauties of Kang Kai, I am
just presenting a phase of the subject and you will see its application
later.) The mountain roads are steep and hard to climb. One of the
passes we crossed getting up here this summer was so steep that the chair
coolies could not carry me up. The turns back and forth were so short
and sharp that there was no room for the chair poles and I had to be
perched on the top of one of the horse loads with a man walking behind
me to hold me on, so that I would not slide off backwards. You will not
be surprised to know that under these circumstances we women have felt
that we had done something just to get here and have done absolutely
no itinerating.* Possibly some day when our babies are older we may
undertake it, but as yet it seems out of the question.
But what is to be done for the women ? They cannot be left to wait
for our possible going at some distant date. When Misses Mills and
Samuels came to help in our class last year they were beseiged every step
of the way by women trying to make them promise to come back at once
to help them. But these two young ladies are both stationed elsewhere
and cannot come, and our general mission force is so occupied that
it would be difficult for us to get a single woman and, moreover, we are
so isolated that it would not be fair to ask just one single woman to
come. She should have a “ better half,” too, though only another woman
worker. She would need her to help make a home and to help take the
long hard trips and that at present is clearly not feasible. The question
of how to meet the situation was most insistant and we finally decided
that the thing to do was to develop a circle of women qualified for the
work.
* All 3 of these ladies are quite new to the station, work and language, and have each had one or two
little ones since they began to live in Kangai. Mrs. Flair had at that time only partially recovered from
an illness.
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We have here in Kang Kai assisting in the city work a woman whose
name is Nu Ssi. She is a most efficient helper. In the local church
there are many more women than men and their work is well organized.
There is an unusually good spirit among the women and Nu Ssi is
largely responsible for it. She has also been a prime mover in the
organization and conduct of an excellent girls’ school which enrolled over
60 last year and graduated five. One of the first things which particularly
impressed me after coming here was hearing Nu Ssi tell of a trip she
had made to some distant churches. She had been out a month and
taught classes in seven churches, I believe, travelling several hundred li *
over very difficult roads to do it. She was also in the habit of going
to nearby churches for a few days teaching and the women everywhere
were greatly profited by her ministrations. The thought came to us that
if one such with as little preparation as she had (had only a few days
at a class in Syen Chyun), could do as much as she does, why could not
several women be sent to training classes and equipped to do the work
the foreign ladies usually do ?
So we evolved a Bible Woman Scheme of our own.
What is a Bible woman ? Asa rule she is a woman supported by
foreign funds who is the personal helper of one of the foreign women, f
and works under her personal supervision. She is chosen by the
woman whose helper she is and her choice is ratified by the station.
The women workers in our district are quite different. In fact their
work is on a par with that of the men who are known as Cho-sas. The
Cho-sa is a helper who has control over a large working district, of course
under one of the missionaries. Our women are called Kuan-sas. Unlike
the men they have no authority in their district so far as church questions
are concerned but they have large influence and they like the Cho-sas
work under the supervision of the pastor of the district in which they labor.
The year of a Kuan-sa is divided into three parts. Three months
are spent in study at an accredited Bible school, four months of the year
are given to their work in their homes, their personal home life, and
the. remaining five months are spent travelling about to all the churches
and groups with which they were connected. This travelling, preaching
to the heathen, and helping at the church work in such ways as a pastor’s
assistant at home would help constitute the principal lines of their efforts.
Whenever a woman goes off on one of these preaching trips an older
woman accompanies her as chaperone or else she takes companions with
her from church to church as she goes. This is one of the requirements.
Whenever a district is sufficiently anxious for a Kuan-sa to be
willing to guarantee her salary for the five months of service, which must
be almost thirty yen a year, an application is sent to the pastor whose
* A li is one-third of an English mile.
f We think this a mistake, we think the majority of Bible women are supported by native church funds or
work voluntarily, lady missionaries’ personal helpers are nearly all supported by foreign funds ; most of the
large native churches employ their own Bible women, and the Bible Society pays its colporteurs, also called
Bible women Dr. Gales’ church in Seoul employs 6 Bible women, all paid by native funds, Sai Mun An Church
employs one and has this year 10 voluntary workers, who give one day each week; many other churches could
give similar reports or better.
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appointee must be ratified by the Se-chal Wi-won or committee of control
which is responsible to the Presbytery.
An appropriation for thirty yen each from money which the Board
gives for our Bible women’s work is then applied to the expenses of this
new appointee’s training in the Bible school. But her salary is entirely
paid by those whom she serves and it is part of the plan that just as
rapidly as possible the churches will take over the expenses of her edu-
cation also, thus releasing that money for other work. As a matter of fact
one woman’s expenses were paid by her church and another who has a
little money paid her own so we are getting along in that respect already.
A second advantage of the plan is that the abnormal condition of
having the work of the church divided into the men’s and women’s work
is obviated, the same men and committees having charge of all so making
it more of a unit.
A third part of the plan is to have the men and women unite in their
big Bible classes. During the morning and afternoon they meet to study
separately, each division led by those especially qualified, but in the
evenings they unite in one general big meeting. In this way more women
can attend as a woman can take with her husband the long journey to the
class which would be impossible if she went alone. She also has the
advantage of hearing the special speakers who are called to the men’s class.
I have told you what Nu Ssi has done. Cha Cho-sa Says of Choi
Ssi’s work that since she began he has been able to reach the women
as never before and that they have developed remarkably in their ability
to work and do their part. An Moksa told Kim Moksa, who has charge
of the China District what the women had done for his churches and
he went home and immediately appointed a worker from among his
leading women. These are only beginnings but they seem promising to
us and we believe the Lord will use these women to do great things
in this work which is so new and undeveloped.*
WOMAN’S BIBLE INSTITUTE.
PYENG YANG, KOREA, 1911.
The work of the Institute began with the Workers’ Class in October,
1910. Eighty women from the city and country churches studied for two
weeks on the course of study to be used in teaching country classes
during the year, 30 of them preparing themselves to teach lessons from
Philippians and Revelation, Luke and John, and 50 preparing on lessons
in Luke, John, Mark and Bible Catechism.
From November to March classes were held by the women with the
following results :
In Mr. Mowry’s territory 1 5 Classes attended by 1 87 persons
„ „ Blair’s „ 13 „ „ 623
„ Dr. Moffett’s ,, 10 „ „ „ 430
* We hope this article will be carefully noted by all interested in women’s work.
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In Mr. Bernheisers territory 14 Classes attended by 392 persons
„ „ Holdcroft’s ,, 24 „ „ „ 665 „
„ „ Swallen’s „ 37 „ „ „ 1,520
„ Dr. Baird’s „ 3 » » ,, hi „
Total Classes 106 Total attendance 3,920 persons
It is encouraging to see what interest the women take in preparing
themselves for teaching, and gratifying to see how acceptable most of
them are to the churches to which they are sent. Some places are
particular and want a teacher of established reputation, but most of them
are satisfied and do good work with the teachers we send them. The
churches have entertained the women during; the week of the class and
in a few instances have paid their railroad fare. Most of the women,
however, follow Korean custom and walk to the places where they are to
teach. This means hardship, sometimes in bad weather and over unknown
roads, and we suggested in a number of cases when church officers came
in to Pyeng Yang to arrange for Bible classes that they send some one in
the day before the class should begin in order to show the teachers the
way and perhaps carry their bundle of books, lesson outlines to be given
to the women of the class, clothing, etc. This was done very willingly,
thus making it easier for the women and giving the church people an
opportunity to show their appreciation of what the teachers were doing in
giving their time and strength for the sake of the women in the country
groups whose opportunity for Bible Study are not many. The teachers
have taken with them to each class, books and lesson papers for use in
their teaching. The Lesson Sheets were printed by the Training Class
Committees at trifling cost and were given free to members of these
classes; but all books were sold, the sales in one territory amounting to
29.08 yen (about 15 dollars).
2. — Sunday School Teachers’ Class.
The Class for the Sabbath School Teachers of all our churches was
held this year from March 1st to 14th. There was an attendance of 285
women, of whom all but 45 were from the country. It is the aim of
those who have this class in charge to make it more and more a class for
the training of Sabbath School Teachers, and to this end for the past
several years Conferences on the S.S. Work have had a good share in the
program and, it is hoped that as soon as a book on Teacher Training is
available that it may be put in the course of study.
The program this year provided for Morning Prayers in charge of
Mrs. Holdcroft.
1st Division in John’s Gospel (Chap. 1-10) by Mrs. Mo wry and Mrs. Won.
„ „ „ Bible Catechism (1st half) „ Miss Butts „ To Si.
2nd „ „ Bible Catechism (2nd half) „ Pak To Sin.
„ „ „ John’s Gospel (Chap, n-21) „ Mrs. Blair.
3rd „ „ Corinth. I (12 selected lessons) „ Miss Best.
„ „ „ Epistle of James „ Mrs. Moffett.
4th „ „ Romans (Chap. 1-8) „ Miss Butts.
„ „ „ Bible Doctrine „ Miss Best.
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Singing lessons were in charge of Mrs. Holdcroft. Eight Conferences
were held on the following subjects :
1. Work among Children in the Sabbath School Miss Best.
2. Responsibility of the S.S. Teachers in Keeping Order
and Teaching Reverence in Worship Miss Best.
3. Work among New Believers Miss Best.
4. Duties and Privileges of Wives of Korean Officers
(From Korean view point) Pastor Kil.
5. Duties and Privileges of Wives of Church Officers
(From Missionary view point) Mrs. Baird.
6. Preparation of the S.S. Lesson Mrs. Blair.
7. Teaching the S.S. Lesson Mrs. Moffett.
8. The S.S. Teacher Miss Best.
There were many new women in the first and second divisions.
Some of these were newly appointed Sabbath School Teachers and some
were Kwunchals (leaders of tens). A number of them were not very far
advanced in Scripture knowledge, but they were evidently the best women
in the country churches from which they came, and were very much in
earnest and very faithful in their efforts to learn. The opportunity this
class presents of reaching the leaders among the women of our country
churches and through them all the women with instruction is one that
can not be too highly emhpasized and we earnestly hope that we may be
able to lead them aright and put them in the way of getting only those
things that will be a real help to them in their Christian life and service.
3. — Two and One Half Months’ Term.
The long term of Bible Institute was held from March 31st to June
13th. 89 women were enrolled, 54 of them from Pyeng Yang territory, 12
from Syen Chun, 8 from Chai Ryung, 5 from Chong Ju (two of these
being Pyeng Yang women now engaged in Church work in Chong Ju),
4 from Kang Kei, 3 from Seoul, and one each from Taiku, Mil Yang and
Fusanchin. The last a Pyeng Yang woman now engaged by Mrs. Engel
as a Bible woman. Of last year’s enrolment of 50 women, 37 returned
for further study.
There were students this year in four of the five classes of the course,
each class carrying two or three Bible subjects in the morning and all
students having two and three periods a week for a writing lesson in the
afternoon, an hour each Monday afternoon for lectures on Mission work
in other lands. All women under 40 years of age were given several
lessons a week in the first principles of Arithmetic, the idea being to give
them enough to enable them to keep account of books sold and received,
attendance at classes and travelling expenses, etc.
From our own station force, teaching was done by Mrs. Moffett,
Mrs. Blair, Miss Butts and Miss Best. Fusan station lent Miss Doriss for
a month to help in the teaching, and Seoul station kindly let us have Mrs.
Underwood for a month and a half. To these ladies and the stations who
spared them from their own work, we are greatly indebted and would
express our appreciation of their timely help.
Monday afternoon lectures were given by Pastor Kil of Central
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Church, Mr. and Mrs. Engel of the Australian Presbyterian Mission in
Fusan, Mrs. Moffett and Miss Best. Interesting chapel talks were given
by Mr. Brown of the World’s S S. Union Committee, Mrs. Stevenson of
Auburn, N.Y., Mr. Erdman of Taiku, Mr. Wilkes of the Barclay Buxton
Mission of Japan, Rev. M. Craighead of Anna, 111., and Mrs. Baitd, Mr.
Hunt, Dr. Moffett, Mrs. Moffett, and Dr. Underwood kindly interpreting
at different times. All the women of the Institute had the benefit of the
program arranged by Mr. Brown to show the model Sabbath Schools for
Adults and Children in operation.
As only two dormitory rooms in the Institute compound were
available for the women this year four large rooms with kitchens attached
were rented in the neighborhood for the use of those who wished to
reduce their expenses by keeping house. One of these rooms was in the
house of a family reputed wealthy and the women who lived in this room
were called upon to share the misfortunes that sometimes fall to the lot of
those who are rich in this world’s goods. The compound was entered at
night by a couple of robbers who succeeded in carrying off a good deal
of money and several watches. One woman was the heaviest loser being
the poorer by eight yen in money and a silver watch. All the women
lost something, but they were so thankful to have come through the
experience with no harm to themselves that they bore their losses cheer-
fully.
About 60 of the women in attendance this year were from a distance.
If there are as many next year they will more than fill all the dormitory
room on the compound. We are very glad that we received some of the
money that we asked for new dormitories and improvements and with it
and the remaining 2,coo yen, which we hope that the Board can secure
soon, we hope during the coming year to provide more dormitory room
and some bath rooms, to be used not only in the spring when the most
continuous work of the Institute is done, but at the times of the various
classes held throughout the year under the direction of the Institute.
Several women, wives of the Theological Seminary students, were
admitted to the Institute for one hour of study per day, the rule not to
admit women with young children debarring them from full admission.
They were also urged to attend chapel service and Monday afternoon
lecture, and in this way were brought within the life of the Institute in a
way which we hope proved helpful to them.
Tuition to the amount of 85 yen was collected. Thirty-seven and a
half yen of this applied to the board bills of the two ladies from other
station who helped teach in the Institute and the remainder was put
into the general fund and most of it used in the purchase of dormitory
supplies.
Not only for the help it will be in the teaching schedule, but also for
the advantage it will be to the students to come into contact with mission-
aries from other parts of the field, we hope that next year as this we may
have assistance from ladies of other stations.
Close touch with such earnest women as most of the Institute women
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were this year does us all good. Many of them are in positions in their
own homes where their influence counts for much and our prayers and
interest will follow them throughout the year as they strive to make their
lives count for truth and right, in places perhaps where truth and right are
not regarded.
One need in all our work among the women who come each year
within the sphere of the Institute is for someone who has time to give
to thorough, systematic instruction and drilling in singing and also in
Physical Exercise.
With this work and helping to teach the Bible classes the time of
an extra lady would very quickly be filled and if we are so fortunate as
to get the single woman we have been asking for evangelical work the
last two years she should have plenty of work waiting fo'r her before she
could get the language.
Respectfully submitted to Mission and Board,
Margaret Best,
In charge of Institute.
CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES AND PROBLEMS OF
WOMEN’S WORK IN SYEN CHYUN*
Seven of us, .Syen Chy unites, gathered together one afternoon to
discuss the work for women in our province, were asked to decide what
was the most significant thing in regard to it. All with one accord made
answer in varying phrases, “ Its immensity and our inadequacy.”
Six married women, all with home and family cares, and one single,
now only two years on this field, to over-see the work for over 12,000
Christian women in the province, in the town three Sabbath schools
enrolling over 1,200 women and girls, week-day Bible classes, school for
young married women, Academy for girls, not to speak of the super-
vision of the primary schools. No wonder we look forward with anxiety
to the coming year. Truly this is one of the times when we feel that we
must turn to the Lord only to accomplish the results and if, as we know,
the work at such times is alwrays specially blest, surely this year will be
one of joy and blessing to us all.
This is not intended as an appeal for aid but merely a summing up
of our situation without which we could not intelligently discuss the work.
The women are so responsive, so eager for teaching, and so dependent
upon the foreigner for light that we feel our responsibility towards them
very greatly.
It seems to me that one of the most interesting and significant features
of our woman’s work at present is the very large proportion of baptized
women to be found in all our classes, — in the Sunday-schools, the week-
day classes, and more than all in our spring Bible Conference.
The statistics show a steady increase along this line and last spring
* Read at the woman’s meeting of Presbyt. Mission.
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out of the 1,283 women enrolled from town and country only 150 were
new believers. This does not mean that our increase in the whole num-
ber of adherents is less but that the large body of those who come into
the church stay and in time are received as catechumens and baptized.
Nor does it mean that the requirements are lax, for besides the examina-
tion on belief, knowledge and conduct, ability to read is an almost invari-
able requirement, especially among the young women and it is surprising
how many of the old grandmothers also, can follow the reading from
their book. Recently in our woman’s Sunday-school in the south church
we started the plan of asking all those who cared to learn to read to stay
after the regular Sunday-school service was over, the thought having
been suggested by seeing one of the old ladies with her spectacles on her
nose laboriously pointing down the lines of her hymn book, while waiting
for the service to begin, and showing an admiring eager group of the
contemporaries how to sing from the book. The first Sunday out
of the 400 enrolled, considerably over a hundred women remained and
we went to work with a will. Of course since, their number has fallen
off a bit, but great interest is shown in the wall chart of the syllabary
which we had made so that even the darkened eyes of the old women
could see the characters and learn to recognize them. Some were so
anxious to take it back to their homes that we could hardly bear to refuse
them, and some asked so wistfully, “ If we learn these characters can we
really learn to read our Bibles?” What we regret is that we had not
thought of this way of helping them long ago. We had tried week-day
classes at various times but the hour directly after Sunday-school when so
many have little to do but wait for the afternoon preaching service seems
to be better adapted.
Aside from the fact that the body of women as a whole are progres-
sing we feel that one of the reasons for the increasing proportion of the
baptized in our Bible Conference is due to the fact that if out of a thou-
sand only one woman can come, the more advanced member of the family
is selected seeing that in that way she can help friends and the ultimate
profit thus is greater for all. And yet it is evident that many wait im-
patiently for their turn to come, for we notice the pride and pleasure with
which the new ones say it is their first time and tell of their anxiety to
attend in previous years. Occasionally, and this is one of the chief
dangers, we find women who, having been baptized, feel that that is the
height of their ambition and relax their efforts when once it is attained,
but in the main they advance and develop mentally and spiritually.
And now the problem confronts us, “ How can we best reach them
and help them to advance as they should? ” In the early days, so we
hear from those who have been longest in the work, every individual
member of the church was known personally to the missionary and could
frequently be met and talked with, advised or admonished, and the close
personal touch was evident throughout all the work. But now, with the
thousands instead of the tens to take into consideration this is impossible.
As we look on the sea of faces in the church services, it is only the
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occasional one that we know well enough to recall name or personality.
Many faces are familiar more or less from constant attendance but the
close sisterly touch we would so like to feel is almost beyond us. When
we begin to count up it seems as though we know a good many and they
do come to see us frequently but after all it is only the tens among the
hundreds that we know. We know that this close friendship has been
one of the reasons for advance in the past, but if in the town it is now
difficult to maintain, how much more in the province ! How can one
woman, itinerating for nine months almost constantly though she may,
reach the thousands waiting to be met and helped ?
We are trying to organize special bands of Korean women who will
go out to the country places and teach their more ignorant friends but
almost all of our advanced women here, have home or family ties or lack
money for such trips. It is the same with our Korean sisters as with our-
selves. We cannot ask them to leave a family of children to make many
of these teaching trips, earnest and zealous though they are. Many do
it at great cost. Dear old Kim Ssi, so long Miss Samuels’ great help
and dependance, has now grown too old to travel regularly but she
still goes as her strength permits and preaches the Word although her
methods are not the latest in Pedagogy. She by the way was the first
Korean to give money for the sup*port of a native worker in our
province. This w'as over twelve years ago when she made a sub-
scription for the salary of a worker, then the only helper in the Syen
Chyun field. She also gave, shortly after, a tiled building in the town for
the woman’s work and five years ago she gave land for an endowment for
the Boys’ Academy, which she has since turned over to Mr. Hugh O’Neill.
But not all women can give as she can for she has no immediate family
and an independent property, but she is an example to all in her whole
hearted service. Many examples of this volunteer preaching and teach-
ing could be given. My own cook, a little woman, tied down by a family
of four little boys, is most earnest and zealous in her desire to preach and
has several times asked me for a. Sunday off to go to some heathen rela-
tions in a nearby village. But very few of our women have as yet
reached the period where they can be sent off to hold classes of any size
entirely on their own responsibility and without any supervision of a
foreigner. Several years’ special training classes have been held to give
our advanced women instruction in methods of teaching, etc., but with the
work of the whole province pressing and frequent calls from other
stations for aid, Miss Samuels has been able to devote comparatively little
time to it, Miss Chase’s time has been lergely given to the Academy, and
our married women with their limited time, many demands already being
made upon it, have not been able to help much in the past. But we hope
in the future that this plan can be developed greatly, possibly in the form
of a Bible Institute, and we want suggestions from those ladies who have
already carried on those classes and especially in regard to the classes in
the country which have been successfully held by the Korean women.
This is one of our greatest problems. How shall we best equip our
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women for teaching and training their less advanced sisters ? Is the paid
Bible woman the best plan and should we have more of them ? And
what form should their training take ? These are some of the questions
we have not yet worked out and we want your help. The last few years
Miss Samuels has planned to hold longer classes at certain larger centers
throughout the province, but beside these there are many, many smaller
places where the women need class-work or special teaching, and where
it is an utter impossibility for the missionary to go every year. We want
to fit the Korean women to do this work as soon as possible.
The problems are great but we are not discouraged when we con-
sider the growth of the work as a whole and the individual progress of
the hundreds. The bright intelligent faces of the multitudes, the clean
babies, are all evidences that the seed planted in the past is blossoming
now, and that can hopefully leave the full development of the fruit to the
care of our great Husbandman and Father.
Maud W. P. YVhittemore.
EXTRACTS FROM THE STORY OF RECENT
WOMAN S WORK IN THE M.E. MISSION.
EVANGELISTIC WORK IN CHONG DONG
M.E. CHURCH, SEOUL.
Miss LULU E. FREY.
The evangelistic work among the women of First Church, Seoul, and
village churches connected with it is largely the work of five Bible women
all faithful but aging rapidly now after many years of service, one longing
for the day when the Father shall call her to her reward. Their report
cards show thousands of Christian and heathen homes visited and hun-
dreds brought to a knowledge of Christ. Three hundred and fifty women
have come into the city church alone during the year. The women of
the church are also active in the Master’s service. Through the Aid
Society, they half support a Bible woman who visits according to their
direction. Two classes numbering about 60 women were taught and have
received baptism. One old lady of 79 years recited perfectly the Lord’s
Prayer, the Apostles’ Creed and the Ten Commandments, answering most
satisfactorily all questions regarding her faith. She expressed regret that
she had not heard of Jesus wrhen she was younger but was happy that at
last she knew Him.
Between 300 and 400 women attend Sunday-school regularly and
are growing in the knowledge of the truth.
THE BIBLE WOMAN’S TRAINING SCHOOL.
Miss MIL.LIE M. ALBERTSON.
Last fall until within three weeks of the time for the Bible School to
open, it had been impossible to find a place in which to house all of the
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students who had been accepted. Finally, however, our Parent Board
decided to establish another church down in the heart of the city in
buildings where the Young Men’s Christian Association first opened their
work. This being only a short distance from the rooms already used for
the school, we were fortunate in securing from them six rooms — three
class and three dormitory rooms.
The buildings are old and, not having been used for some time,
many repairs were absolutely necessary. They are also in a densely
populated district with most unfavorable sanitary conditions ; therefore,
the health of the students has been a matter of constant anxiety. While
it is true that the majority of them come from even less favorable sur-
roundings, the early experiences of other schools have proved that when
the Koreans begin hard study, they run down physically unless they have
good air and sunshine.
Now that the site for a new building has been decided upon — the
beautiful lot belonging to the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society and
located just outside the West Gate — the work of erecting a building
should begin just as soon as possible. If the foundation could be laid
this fall so that the work of building could proceed early in the spring, it
might be that we could open the school in the new building one year
from this fall.
Again we have reached our limit so far as growing in numbers is
concerned. It will be quite impossible to receive more than one or two
more students into our present quarters ; until we can have a new building,
therefore, we shall aim merely to grow better rather than bigger. The
average attendance during the past year has been 'thirty — twenty-two
boarding and eight students.
EVANGELISTIC WORK.
Mrs. W. A. NOBLE.
At the women’s meetings, we learn of many interesting incidents
which mark growth in the Christian life. At one meeting, Bible verses
were being recited by each one present, when a woman aged 58 who
knew not how to read recited nearly a whole chapter. We listened amazed
and asked her how she did it. She said her husband had patiently read
it to her little by little until she had mastered it.
Sadie Kim, my Bible woman, always faithful, has made 2,770 visits,
teaching Christ in the homes, has sold 83 Christian books, led 33 women
to the altar and induced 30 backsliders to return to God. Many are the
wonderful instances of faith reported by Sadie. Many women have
received cruel stripes because of their love for Jesus. One woman aged
60 believed in Jesus but her husband did not and kept his wife from
attending church. One time when Sadie was calling on her he ordered
Sadie to leave the house, saying he didn’t want any Christians around
there. Sadie said she would go, but, first, please to let her pray with
them. He didn’t refuse and afterwards let his wife attend church.
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BIBLE WOMEN.
Miss ETHEL M. ESTEY.
Kilsi, the woman who gives two-thirds of her time to the Lord, has
travelled several thousand li this past year and there is no group and
hardly any little, lonely, out-of-the-way place where believers dwell, but
has seen her happy face and heard her earnest exhortations once or
several times during the year. “ When I think of God’s grace to me I
can not rest, but I feel I must go and make it known to others,” has been
her answer as, again and again, after long trips in the mountains she has
returned for fresh traveling orders. She and another woman have just
returned from an eight hundred li trip* and tell a thrilling tale of meeting
insurgents in dangerous mountain passes, of lost roads found again through
prayer and works, of persecutions and many other difficulties, but all
overcome through God’s grace, with great joy in the overcoming. From
the far away places among the mountains where it would be impossible
for us to visit — where one or two believers only are trying to follow the
little light they have found in some way unknown to us, such messages
of love and gratitude as I never have heard nor expected to hear have
come thanking me for sending “Tithing Women” who have visited,
taught, and encouraged these lonely seekers. Many of these women are
doing this work at a great sacrifice. One young woman who has always
been sheltered from hardships as known to Korean women, but who
nearly perished in a storm while on her way for class work, wrote me
this message, “ Our bodies suffered much but there was such joy in
serving the Lord Who loved us and bore the cross for us that we were
happy. I never realized His cross and His fellowship before as I have
this year.” This same woman, prevented by illness from giving her whole
“tenth” -of time, wrote me not long ago saying, “Please tell me where
to go as my heart is anxious lest I have not given all the time I promised.”
All over the district among our women there has been a steady
growth in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord as manifested in
increased desire for study of the Word, in willingness of service, and in
seeking to bring others to a like knowledge. Altogether on Yeng Byen
District, 46 classes have been held since last September. In Pyeng Yang
— by the Tithing Women — 50 classes and in Seoul and vicinity 22.
EVANGELISTIC WORK.
Misses MARY R. HILLMAN and LULA A. MILLER.
We consider the training class work the most satisfactory in all our
experience as evangelistic workers. Our plan is a modification of Miss
Estey’s method described at last Conference. It differs from Miss
Estey’s plan in that we furnished mimeographed copies not only for the
women who came to us for training, but also for every woman in
attendance on the classes conducted by our helpers provided she could
read ; we went to the different centers, in this way reaching and training
English miles 266.
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more women than we could have induced to come to us at Chemulpo ;
we also carried the idea of self-support a little farther, giving no financial
assistance except in two or three very needy cases. The women brought
their rice with them and paid all the expenses while traveling to and from
their appointments, over and above their tithe of time.
The Holy Spirit worked mightily in the hearts of the women in their
preparatory two weeks of study. There was the same breaking down
and crying out because of discovered sins in their hearts and lives, the
same agony of prayer and glorious victory as characterized the great
revival five years ago. Is it strange that when these dear women went
out two by two the Holy Spirit used their messages in convicting of sin
those whom they taught in the village churches ? These volunteer workers
felt their responsibility so great that one timid woman prayed the entire
night through preceeding her first day’s teaching, and another was so
constantly in prayer the day before that her husband asked her what she
had on her mind that she prayed so much. In some of the villages the
men asked if they too might not come. Think of a Korean man begging
the privilege of being taught by a Korean woman. Verily, the world is
being turned upside down.
In one place, as a result of the teaching three men who were leaders
in the church arose saying that they had been led to throw away tobacco
during the class, and a young man who had fallen into drinking and had
also deceived his father, that his sins might be covered, confessed all in
the church and claimed victory. Of those who heard the message and
decided for Christ, of those who had grown discouraged, but realized
anew that following Christ was worth while, of those who confessed to
sins in their lives, anger, hatred, malice and lukewarmness, of reconcilia-
tions and family reunions, resulting from the class work, only the re-
cording angel has the complete record. Our Bible women and these
volunteer workers held 96 classes.
Women’s Study Course : — Last Conference we reported outlining a*
four years’ study course for those women in our churches who are
wanting to study. At the completion of the prescribed course they will
have studied and been examined on the entire New Testament, Mrs.
Noble’s booklet on the care of children, Elementary Physiology, Hygiene,
Primary Geography and Letter Writing, and will be able to write the
Chinese numerals to a thousand. Compared with their present attain-
ments, this will be a liberal education. Forty-four women have com-
pleted the first year' s course and have been granted certificates. Twenty
of this number being Chemulpo women, we arranged that they receive
their certificates at our school commencement when certificates and
diplomas were given our school girls.
Chemulpo City Church : — The women of oifr city church have
continued their record for zeal in service. Our unsalaried class leaders
during the past eleven months have made 14,194 visits in the homes and
have held 103 classes for the instruction of younger Christians in the
* Would call especial attention to this excellent method of helping poor women and girls who desire to study
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different sections into which we have divided the city. The study class
reported last year continues to be a great help to our women. We have
arranged their studies so that they are taking our prescribed study course
outlined above. Our faithful Chinese teacher, Mr. Pale, continues to con-
tribute largely to the success of the Society. Our city pastor has also
taught them the Bible and other men of the church have generously
assisted. The women of this Society have given 75-9 yen during the
year toward the support of the day school teacher. That this money is
very precious in the Lord’s sight we cannot doubt when we remember
that some of it represents a spoonful of rice taken from each meal’s
portion, put aside, at the end of the month sold, and the proceeds given
for the education of their daughters.
NOTE FROM MRS. SHARPE.
One place was visited during the winter that encouraged my heart,
not because of the large numbers, but because of the faith of an old
couple. Although the only Christians in the village, and neither of them
can read, they can pray and sing. The number of hymns they have
learned is wonderful and they sing from the heart. They have a little
grand-daughter, four or five years, whom they love very dearly and to
whom they have taught these songs. The day I was there the grand-
father tola her to sing for me. She came into the room and in such an
old fashioned way said, “What would you like for me to sing?”
“Anything you know,” I replied. She then sang five or six hymns
through successively, beating time all the while with her little hand.
This same old couple through prayer have cured three people, — one
being their daughter-in-law who was crazy, one a little four year old boy
who had a deformed hip, and a woman who for seven years had been
sick with some kind of stomach trouble. Although this woman’s home
is nearer another place of worship, she walks farther in order to come
to this place because of her love for the old couple who have helped her
and who have turned their home into a church where the Christians from
the nearby villages meet every Sunday to worship God.
THE NEED OF EDUCATION FOR
POOR KOREAN GIRLS.
While we have been rejoicing for years in the great change of
attitude among Koreans in the matter of education generally and
especially as regards woman’s education, and have seen with pleasure the
rapid and steady growth of our girls’ schools, on the other hand it is
being more and more forced upon us who are working among women,
that the great majority of our Christian girls , not to mention unbelievers,
are not getting even a grammar school education, not because their
parents are opposed to it, but because they are so poor. They are
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eagerly longing for schooling, it is to them the summum bonum, but light
as are the expenses of our Christian schooling, they cannot afford them, or
they cannot be spared from the service needed at home, and often as soon
as they are old enough, they must be married off, that their struggling
parents may be entirely relieved of their support. What can we do about
this without harmfully interfering with the self-support methods that have
been such a helpful and bracing stimulus to the Christians ? As you all
know there are literally thousands of Christian girls growing up without
even a knowledge of reading, or if they have that, of almost nothing
more. Even the simplest ideas of hygiene and sanitation, the commonest
rules of caring for household and children, according to enlightened
Christian custom are absolutely unknown to them. They can cook
Korean food and make and wash Korean clothes, and work in the fields,
nothing more.
Two or three ways in which we might help have been suggested.
One would be night schools, held for short periods, and taught by girls
in the mission academies wishing to help pay their way. One would be
schools where poor girls could come for only a few hours each day, and
during only a few months each year, when there is less work to be done
at home. Such a school might be kept running the whole year, with
different relays of teachers, and different classes of girls.
Again in the country villages, summer schools might be held, taught
by graduates or pupils of our academies. Some boys in Songdo
volunteered to teach in poor villages where a salary could not be paid,
for their board alone, this might be suggested to our Christian Academy
girls, and we feel sure those who could would respond most generously.
In times when it might be necessary for the girls t<$ work in the day time,
such schools could be held at night. In Syen Chen an itinerant teacher
is employed by several churches, and teaches their schools, each for a
short time in turn.
For many of these poor girls a complete high school education
would be neither necessary or desirable.
A few of the rudiments, such as are taught the children in the
primary and grammar grades would suffice, with some simple instructions
about health, cleanliness, nursing, bringing up children, housekeeping, and
perhaps even embroidery or some thing by which they could earn a
little money, if spare hours ever came. Even if enough voluntary
teachers for the short term schools could not be found, the expense of such
schools would be so much less that in some cases at least the parents could
afford to pay a teacher’s salary, and for the great majority of such girls,
this sort of education would really be more useful and practicable as well
as attainable, than that offered by our academies, which is more suitable
for a special class and grade of girls.
Again it is no longer a matter of uncertainty that the government
intend to insist on some kind of schooling for all, and those who are not
provided for by the church will be forced to attend the public non-
Christian schools.
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We think all will agree that the need for the right kind of inexpensive
schooling, attainable by the poorest, has as yet never been met by us, and
that we ought to do something about it, and at once.
We shall pretty unanimously feel too, that of all the work we could
do here, such a work would be m6st beneficial in the end to the Korean
people as a whole, for nothing can compare with the importance of
training the future mothers of the people, in knowledge of God, and all
the simple but great duties that will devolve on them.
L. H. Underwood.
The following paper reached us too late for the October issue but was presented
to the Council’s Committee on site for summer Bible school. It seems certain that
Korea is the country for such a school for the Far East, its climate being better
than that of China or Japan at that season. There are various localities here that
offer attractions and it is believed that under God’s guidance the committee will be
led to unite on the most suitable. It must not be forgotten that if this great boon
becomes possible it will be very largely thru the initiative of Dr. White to whom,
under God, our gratitude is due.
We regret that in the hurry and stress of the council business no one thought to
express our thanks to Dr. White for the immense benefit he is contemplating
conferring upon not only Korea but all the missionaries of this part of the world, a
benefit both spiritual and physical. Sometimes we take our greatest blessings like
salvation as a matter of course, and perhaps even set conditions on how if at all we
shall accept them. But in this case we certainly do and shall more and more feel
deeply grateful to our noble benefactor and we know we are speaking for all who
will share in it when we say that words cannot express our thanks for his inspired
thought of good for the East. — Ed.
WONSAN BIBLE CONFERENCE.
A very precious privilege is granted to the missionaries resident in
Wonsan, and others who spend their holiday month in that charming
summer resort, in the Annual Bible Conference of one week’s duration,
which is becoming a feature of Wonsan and one of its strong attractions
to visitors.
In spite of the difficulties of the journey, every year brings a number
of missionaries from the west coast, from Japan and China, to enjoy the
delights of Wonsan Harbor, and to participate in this week of spiritual
refreshing.
For the past two years parties of missionaries have rented a large
vacant house close by the sea, with spacious grounds that permit of rest
and quiet, and here the Conference has gathered finding pleasure also in
an opportunity for sea-bathing after the daily sessions, and in the charm
of soft lapping waves or of strong surf sounding in the ears while studying
the Word or lunching on the beach or the well-shaded lawns.
So far no famous Bible teachers have been present, yet God has
given messages of inspiration through the lips of His missionary children
tired and taxed though they have been by the year’s work, and He has
made them very conscious of His presence in quiet hours of meditation
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and prayer. The aim has been, not so much to accomplish an amount of
difficult study, as to wait before Him whose ambassadors they are, for
the changed strength by which they may “ mount up with wings as
eagles, run and not be weary, walk and not faint.”
A committee is chosen each year to decide upon a programme
which shall best meet the needs of the Conference, and thus a variety of
themes is presented in the choice of Old Testament studies of Law or
Prophecy, quiet talks on prayer, inspirational addresses, or vital matters
relating to practical work. Among the missionaries assembled are usually
found those who can rest and uplift others in song, and the hours of
praise have become a true pleasure.
Many requests for prayer are brought in from day to day, represent-
ing often the stress and strain of a year’s work. Condensed into a single
sentence are matters that have meant hours of “strong crying and tears,”
for which burdened hearts long for help and sympathy of others who
know how to pray.
Hours between sessions gave an opportunity for united prayer to
those who desired that privilege, as well as a time for inquiry about
deeper spiritual experiences, and the result has been blessing and victory
for many. Last year the spirit of prayer throughout the conference days
resulted in the forming of a prayer union among those attending, by which
China, Japan and Korea have been bound together in loving fellowship
and sympathy. This year the circle was widened as a party from Japan
joined and a dear sister from China who is eager to carry back inspiration
to her native helpers from this land of revival fame. The friends from
Japan found more than a holiday share of work in the Japanese settlement
and had the joy of seeing some good fruit from their special meetings.
There were over thirty of us in all, most of whom attended every
session of the Conference, besides a number of dear babies who played
meanwhile on the beautiful beach. A morning service of praise and
testimony with a deep tone of thanksgiving for new lessons learned, new
strength received, new blessings claimed and new victories won, with an
afternoon communion service of true solemnity, filled the second Sunday,
and brought to a close the week to which many had looked forward
during the year, and in which God came graciously near to some of His
weary workers.
Others in Korea may be glad to know of the spiritual recreation to
be had in Wonsan during the first week of August, and may plan to
share in it in coming summers. Some who remember the early years of
the Conference and the revival which then began among the missionaries
and spread farther into Korea than perhaps any of us know, are praying
that God may use it in the future even in the measure that Keswick has
been made a blessing on the other side of the globe.
Elizabeth A. McCully.
Ham Hung, Korea.
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NOTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
NORTHERN PRESBYTERIAN MISSION.
The members of the Presbyterian Mission held their Annual Meeting
this year in Pyeng Yang, where they were most hospitably entertained by
the resident missionaries, the completion of the beautiful new building of
the girls’ academy making it possible to accommodate guests much more
comfortably than before.
Besides the regular members of the mission there were quite a num-
ber of guests, among whom were Dr. and Mrs. Winn of Dalney, parents
of Mr. George Winn, and Mrs. Erdman, Rev. and Mrs. Paton of S.
China, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Templeton of Portland, Oregon, with their
daughter, Dr. and Mrs. Thornton Mills of Schenectedy, N.Y., parents of
Miss Anna Rae Mills, Miss Jane Hyde of Nankin, China, and several
others.
The new missionaries present, that is those just arrived, were Dr. and
Mrs. Smith, to be stationed in Andong, Dr. Bigger, in Kangai for the
present, Miss Stevens for Syen Chen, and Miss Forsythe, trained nurse
for Seoul. Mr. and Mrs. Bernheisel, Dr. and Mrs. Clark and Mr. and
Mrs. Smith, all just returned from furlough, were welcomed.
The Governor of Pyeng Yang visited the meeting, made an address,
and courteously invited the missionaries to a reception at his house.
The Korean pastors and elders also gave a tea for the mission on Dr.
Moffett’s lawn, and one evening was given up to a musical entertainment in
the woman’s building. The ladies of the Methodist mission very kindly
invited the married Presbyterian women to a tea party at one of their homes
while the single women held a special meeting all their own at the house
of Dr. Moffett.
The third of Sept., Sunday, on which the first session of the meeting
was held, Mr. Sharpe, the previous chairman, presided and Mr. Rhodes
of Kangai gave a most excellent sermon, after which all partook of the
communion service.
One of the most interesting features of this opening session was the
baptism of seven beautiful babies. We are sure everybody will want to
know all about this.
They were Lucy Sooy Roberts, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Stacy
L. Roberts of Syen Chen, baptized by Dr. Moffett ; Robert Howard
Toms, son of Rev. and Mrs. J. T. Selwyn Toms, Seoul, baptized by Rev.
Mr. Adams ; Joseph Hayden Lampe, son of Rev. and Mrs. H. W. Lampe,
Syen Chen ; Gordon Lewis Winn, son of Rev. and Mrs. R. Winn of
Fusan, both baptized by Dr. Winn of Dalney ; Helen Francis Rhodes,
daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Ii. A. Rhodes, Kang Kai ; Roger Lee Mills,
son of Dr. and Mrs. R. G. Mills, Kang Kai ; Helen Margaret McCune,
daughter of Rev. and Mrs. G. S. McCune, Syen Chun ; these baptized by
Dr. Underwood.
All the children behaved as small angels are popularly supposed to
behave, not one of them cried a bit tho the rite was unmercifully pro-
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longed for anxious parents and breathless audience, as well as for the
infants, while frantic search was being made for the bowl of water which
all the time was under the table.
They certainly must have felt that being so favored as to be Korean
babies extra good behavior was due on their part, and they came up
nobly to the requirements.
On Monday, the 4th, the regular business of the meeting began by
the election of Rev. Mr. Ross of Syen Chen as Chairman, Mr. McCune
as Secretary and Mr. Holdcroft as Assistant Secretary. It will be of
course impossible in this little paper to give a detailed account of all that
was done, so we can only outline in a very sketchy way some of the
main proceedings.
A most interesting statistical sheet and diagrams of which we hope
to give a copy elsewhere in this issue was presented by Mr. Koons who
certainly had spent a vast amount of faithful labor on it. The main
features of interest are the evidence of steady advance along all lines, the
large amount of voluntary work done, the large percentage of gifts .75 cts.
U.S. currency per adherent annually (adherents include all church
attendants even children, and .7 5 cts. in Korea according to laborers’ wage
values, equals $3.75 in the United States). Also the very small number
of girls in school compared with boys was very noteworthy.
The mission approved the Educational Federation and appointed
representatives to it, also the Sunday-school Association and appointed
Rev. Mr. Holdcroft their permanent representative in Korea.
Twenty-five thousand dollars was asked for as an appropriation for a
Bible Institute in Taiku, it being understood that the money will come as
a private gift and will in part be used as an endowment.
Permission was accorded to the directors of the school for mission-
aries’ children in Korea to ask from private sources for an endowment
fund of $ 200,000 , for building, equipment, teacher’s salaries and general
annual expenses, the missionaries of course each to pay a reasonable sum
for tuition and board of children.
After long and somewhat heated discussion it was also resolved to
ask the Board to appropriate $25,000 for an endowment fund to assist
needy country native Christian schools, on condition that such schools
shall raise two-thirds of the endowment necessary, and that the church
officers, the missionary in charge, the station and the mission executive
committees approve of its being given in each particular case. The reason
for the strong opposition was the fear of interference with the working of
the self-support methods.
In accordance with Seoul’s request for a Bible Institute the Evangel-
istic Committee recommended that permission be given to establish a
Union Bible Institute, in that city, but with the following conditions : —
1. — That the institute shall be local to the stations in the vicinity of
Seoul co-operating.
2. — That it shall be under control of a joint Board which shall be
elected by and subject to the co-operating stations.
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3. — That it shall be a Bible Institute only, entered upon equally by
the co-operating parties without combination with a theological
seminary.
4. — That our long accepted principles of self-support be kept to the
front especially in the matter of aid to students.
The medical committee recommended that until Dr. and Mrs. Smith
could go to Andong, Dr. Ernsberger be employed for one year to act as
physician for that station.
The educational committee’s recommendation that the Seoul Aca-
demy should be permitted to give one or two years of advance college
work in connection with the two Methodist missions was passed by the
mission.
The mission also have opened a station at Myriang, near Fusan, by
removing Mr. and Mrs. Roger Winn and Miss Doris to that place.
The Rev. Mr. Greenfield now in America was appointed to work in
Taiku instead of Seoul.
Dr. Clark was appointed mission statistician, various committees wrere
elected and Seoul’s invitation for the mission to meet there next year
accepted, the meeting closing near midnight on Wednesday, the 13th inst.
NOTES ON THE PRESBYTERIAN
WOMEN S MEETING.
We have left for a separate paragraph the report of the woman’s
meeting, which took place on Wednesday and Thursday, the 6th and 7th.
In response to the call of the committee, the papers read on the first day,
were one from each station with regard to what seemed to its members
its most urgent problems or its most important work.
On Wednesday, Mrs. Moffett was in the chair and conducted the
opening devotional exercises. The papers read were as follows : —
Woman’s Work in Kangai, by Mrs. Blair ; Some Thoughts about
Woman’s Work in Chong Ju, by Mrs. Miller ; Some Thoughts about
Woman’s Work in Seoul, by Mrs. E. H. Miller ; Home Bible Study
Course in Chai Ryung, by Mrs. Whiting ; A Phase of Woman’s Work
in Pyeng Yang, by Miss Best ; Characteristic Features and Problems of
Woman’s Work in Syen Chen, by Mrs. Whittemore ; The Past Year’s
Work among the Women of Taiku, by Mrs. Reiner ; Work for Children,
by Mrs. Welbon of Andong.
On the 2nd day, Mrs. Baird was in the chair and conducted the
opening exercises. The papers read were mostly on education, tho Mrs.
Blair read a very thoughtful article on “ How to help the wives of pastors
and church officers,” and Miss Mills gave a very helpful talk on the
woman’s exchange plan, already noted in the Field. It was there moved
and unanimously resolved to establish such an exchange with headquarters
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in Seoul. Mrs. Toms was elected Secretary or Custodian, the idea being
that all new helpful methods, ideas, lesson outlines, anything whatever
found successful or useful in any work should be reported to Mrs. Toms,
several mimeographed copies being sent, these noted as they come, in the
Field, and ladies desiring to obtain them can do so by applying and
sending postage. A small fee of about ten sen each annually was decided
best to cover expenses of stationery, mimeographing, etc.
Miss Lewis, Miss Snook and Mrs. McCune, all read interesting papers
on school work and Mrs. Underwood read one on the need of schools
for the thousands of poor girls in Korea at present unable to obtain any
kind of education.
After hearing the latter it was resolved to appoint a committee to
bring this matter before the Educational Committee of the mission, and
also to call the attention of other missions to the same.
All these papers are not in our hands, but we are giving as many of
them as we can in the present issue, and congratulate our readers on the
opportunity thus afforded.
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The Korean Religious Tract Society,
T HE TRACT MOUSE,
SEOUL, KOREA.
GERALD BONWICK,
Manager.
THE KOREA MISSION FIELD.
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Mrs. Y. NAKAMURA, D.D.S.
Graduate of Penn. Dental College.
OFFICE HOURS: 9 AM. to 4 P.M.
No. 6B Rokuchome Honmaehi,
— SEOUL, KOREA.
—a. ALL WORK GUARANTEED.
4 CHOME, HONIV1ACHI, Telephone Nos.
SEOUL. 262 & 480.
Wholesale & Retail Dealers
in
Watches, Clocks, Cameras, Jewelry, Cycles and
Gramaphones. Repairs carefully executed.
Victor Records in English, Korean and Japanese.
SEED’S DRY PLATES. ILFORD PLATES & PAPER. KODAK FILMS.
THE DAI-ICHI GINKO, LIS
(FORMERLY THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK.)
ESTABLISHED 1873.
CAPITAL {All Paid Up) Yen 10,000,000
RESERVE FUND „ 5,750,000
HEAD OFFICE: TOKYO.
SEOUL BRANCH: NANZANMACHI 3-CHOME.
Tel. Nos. 11 & Oil.
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THE KOREA MISSION FIELD.
L. RONDON & CI£
SEOUL & CHEMULPO.
GROCERS AND^mea^
GENERAL STOREKEEPERS.
FRENCH BAKERY
AERATED MINERAL WATERS MANUFACTURERS.
Agents for the famous “ Jura Milk ” and “ Cow’s
Head Cream.” Once tried always used.
From the ist of January we allow a discount of
5 % on all City orders, and also upon such Country
orders as exceed 50 yen in value.
TERMS MONTHLY.
By special arrangement with the Transportation
Dept, we deliver goods free of charge to all railway
stations and ports. Price Lists sent on application.
THE KOREA MISSION FIELD.
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K. IWATA
2=CH0ME NAN=DAI=MON=DORI,
PHOTOGRAPHIC
STUDIO.
SEOUL.
Tel. No. 53.
PORTRAITS ARTISTICALLY TAKEN , ENLARGEMENTS MADE ,
COLLOTYPE PLATE-MAKING AND PRINTING , DEVELOPMENT OF NEGATIVES
AND PRINTING DONE TO ORDER.
T. YUEN TAI.
MERCHANT TAILOR AND GENERAL OUTFITTER.
LADIES’ TAILORING A SPECIALITY.
Next door to METHODIST CHURCH, CHONG DONG,
SEOUL, KOREA.
GOMEI KAISHA
YA
SEOUL BRANCH :
HONMACHI 3 CHOME. SEOUL.
GROCERS & GENERAL MERCHANTS.
Provisions. Table-ware. Toilet Articles.
Glass and China. JErated and Mineral Waters.
American Cheese by the lb.
Families waited upon daily for orders.
Favors by post receive prompt attention.
TELEPHONE:
Nos. 212 and 1722.
Price-list sent on
application.
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THE KOREA MISSION FIELD.
THE BANK OF CHOSEN.
(FORMERLY THE BANK OF KOREA, ESTABLISHED 1909.)
BANKERS TO THE GOVERNMENT OF GENERAL OF CHOSEN.
Subscribed Capital Yen 10,000,000
Paid up Capital „ 5,000,000
Reserve Fund „ 16,150
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
GOVERNOR .
Dr. M. ICHIHARA.
DIRECTORS.
R. MIZUKOSHI, Esq. Y. KIMURA, Esq.
T. MISHIMA, Esq.
AUDITORS.
K. HAMAGUCHI, Esq. C. ITO, Esq.
HEAD OFFICE, Seoul, Korea.
BRANCHES:
Chemulpo, Pyongyang, Wonsan, Taiku, Fusan, Chinnampo,
Kunsan, IVIokpo, IVIasan, Sinwiju, Songchin,
Ranam, Antung and Osaka.
Deposits received at call and for fixed period ; Drafts issued ; Remit-
tances cabled ; Bills negotiated or collected, and every other description
of Banking and Exchange business transacted. Business concerning the
Imperial Treasury and the Imperial Loan Bonds also conducted.
Y. KIMURA,
Managing Director .
S. YOSHIDA,
Acting Manager.
THE KOREA MISSION FIELD.
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Marked New Testament with References.
This is the first New Testament to be issued in the Korean language
containing MARGINAL REFERENCES, but it is the MARKED
feature to which we would especially draw your attention. About 380
important texts on such subjects as Repentance, Forgiveness, Salvation,
Holiness, Assurance, Keeping, Witnessing, Judgment, Sin, Backslid-
ing, Healing and The Second Coming are printed in RED INK with a
different sign marking each subject. Permission to use the text of the
Bible Committee has been granted by the British and Foreign Bible
Society, the American Bible Society and the National Bible Society of
Scotland. Prices: Leather 2.00 yen; cloth 50 sen.
Orders should be sent to :
THE KOREAN RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY, Rev. JOHN THOMAS,
THE TRACT HOUSE, or Oriental Missionary Society,
SEOUL. Seoul, Korea.
c. h. Tons.
Ladies and Gentlemen s Tailor, and
General Outfitter.
PERSONAL SUPERVISION GIVEN TO ALL ORDERS.
2 Chome, Hasekawa Cho ,
Telephone No. 971. CHONG DONG, SEOUL.
S. KAMEYA & Co.
GENERAL STOREKEEPERS, GROCERS AND
PROVISION MERCHANTS.
A large and varied assortment of Foreign Goods.
Gents Hats and Hosiery. Perfumery and Soaps.
Suit-cases and Trunks.
HEAD OFFICE : BRANCHES at
HON MACH! 3 CHOME , SEOUL PYENG-YANG & ANTONG.
RELIABLE QUININE
= ' W^UCOMS '
Ou(ivnNi>: Sulphate
Exceptionally pure and active. Highly esteemed
by physicians for its value in preventing and
curing malaria and other fevers. It is successful
when impure quinines fail in their purpose.
TWO FORMS ISSUED
“ COMPACT ” CRYSTALS, a very
convenient form, occupying only one-
third the room of the ordinary bulky
kind.
LIGHT FEATHERY CRYSTALS,
the ordinary form, but excep jiially
white and light. Supplied in bottles;
larger quantities in tins.
Obtainable at the
Principal Pharmacies
Burroughs Wellcome & Co., London
New York Montreal Sydney
Cape Town Milan Buenos Aires
and 44 Szechuen Road, Shanghai
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